Cork's quick wicket

Dominic Cork showed spectators an early touch of what he had produced for England in the Test Match at Lord's. In just his fifth over in the NatWest Trophy fourth-round match the Derbyshire skipper had Warwickshire opener Graeme Welch (11) caught by Karl Krikken on mid-on.

The Bears batsmen had struggled from the start against Cork and Tim Munton. Cork almost broke through again when Luke Sutton failed to hold a catch behind the stumps from Mike Powell. Sutton was keeping wicket because Krikken had experienced a back spasm in practice and decided to play primarily as a batsman.

That was after home captain Neil Smith had decided to bat on winning the toss. Many of the early runs came from edged shots as the batsmen played and miss frequently, and it was such pressure which induced Welch to attempt to hit the ball over the covers. Ashley Giles seemed to be more confident as he cut Cork to the boundary. Scoring, though, was difficult as Munton, for whom Edgbaston had been his home-ground for 15 years, yielded just 10 runs from his opening six overs.

Nevertheless Warwickshire survived their early trials and were relived to see Cork give way to Tom Lungley (1-25 in seven overs) with the score at 48-1.